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45 minutes ago, phdhorn said:
Interesting timing.. .I'm just about to finish the legal paperwork on starting 2 publishing companies... they should be good to go by Monday.
I also have 3 liturgical pieces done which are going to be performed over the next 3-6 months. I don't know if anyone wants to see notation here as well as sound files, but the first piece will be done (and recorded visually) within the next 3 months, then I'll put it on here. I also have other stuff.. I'll put 'em up once I get the publishing companies going in a week or so.
It's been a pretty busy spring for me getting back into it... I'll put it all on the other thread when I get to it. FWIW, I was a music composition major in college, and added history in grad school, which is how I ended up teaching a bit of both at UT. I haven't forgotten about the other thread, just have been working on these compositions the past few months. Moar soon. for sure, put up sound files. would love to hear. arvo part is one of my larger influences.
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feel like we are missing a thread where composition and music made by surly posters can go (someone tell me if i'm wrong and there is one)...
over the last couple of months, gotten back into music production from a hobby perspective. i used to tool around back in college and right after but it has been a while. unfortunately, no real formal training or anything but still enjoy doing it. so in terms of tools...
daw: logic pro x; keyboard/midi controllers: korg kronos & akai mkp249; audio interface: scarlett; condensor mic: akg, controller: mackey 16 control unit; a few vst plugins including serum and zebra for synths, various spitfire audio libraries (mostly strings/orchestral), a couple of native instruments vst's like battery 4 for drums, nerve for a step editor. izotope's neutron 2 for mixing and ozone 8 for home mastering using a wide variety of reference tracks. live instruments are carlo lamberti violin and fender stratocaster.
so, just getting back up on the horse...made a few tracks of varying styles just messing around that obviously still need some work. hoping it will get others to share some of their stuff as well.
first two aren't original but slight recompositions of max richter songs (one he used for a ballet, the other for scoring the show the leftovers). the others are just random, original sketches of melodies and a little bit of delving into electronic/beats. anyway, listen or don't...it's all over the map (would love any technical feedback from some of you studio pros on mix/mastering). but the guitar thread has me hoping that some of you guys that are not just hobbyists will share some of your stuff.
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5 minutes ago, Zavala said:
Please put me on ignore, I'll do the same for you.
Thanks.

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1 minute ago, Zavala said:
No, thats crony capitalism AKA corruption. Capitalism is not government bail-outs.
Simple shit.
you trying to square this with your cult of personality-like devotion to trump policies when he engages in outright protectionism and directly subsidizes entire industries that lose out as a result is almost as dizzying as your declaration that unrestrained capitalism is the greatest economic system in the history of the world and "look at all the cranes!" while claiming that the allocators of that capital "produce jack shit."
which all pale in comparison to your meme about democratic socialists and nazis.
congrats. you're killing it on this page.
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2 minutes ago, Axiom of Choice said:
As I’m typing, I’m realizing that what I am after almost certainly does occur in discussions and publications by the experts, but what the general public gets is watered down useless tripe, the purpose of which is not to inform but to persuade.
precisely. they aid in making idiotic memes like the one posted above. start here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-macroeconomics
moreover, again...the problem is with the very nature of economics itself. it is the meanest bitch of all social disciplines in my opinion because, regardless of what one is evaluating (whether it's micro models for isolated community behavior or macro models for currency trading), the minute you think you have a model that fits the data for the past (or at least some segment of it), the exogenous variable that is human behavior (aka animal spirits, etc...) kicks in going forward and you're simply left there with a giant wtf look on your face.
however, to my point that i alluded to in the post you quoted above, the business cycle is one of the most reliable variables in evaluating the economy. the problem is that when people think of cycles, they think in terms of sine waves and in our modern economy, it is more like a reverse sawtooth. and the drop is always there lurking when times appear at their best (2004/2005, now). we used to have a decent plan for dealing with that by reserving the ability to stimulate through monetary and fiscal policy. we are currently eating all the seeds and gloating about how full we are.
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18 minutes ago, Axiom of Choice said:
Question for you, amico:
There are numoerous quantifiable economic indicators that get used in isolation to highlight some point, typically how well or poorly some politician or political policy is doing. The relevance on that indicator will then be challenged by the opposition and they will bring up some other isolated indicator. What would have some use for these comparative purposes is an indicator that is a calculation from the top 15 or so generally agreed upon meaningful indicators. Basically, a “QB rating” for the economy. That way, if one were to spend massively and skyrocket the debt, this would negatively impact this overall indicator and so if one were to point to an increase in GDP in isolation, one could reply with this overall indicator that takes these things into consideration.
Does such an economic indicator exist? If so, what are they? If none come to mind, any chance you could make one?
it is a great question and one that macro-economists have been struggling with for some time. in my opinion, the problem with the formulating the "best" single indicator of economic health for any particular system goes back to the very nature of economics itself...the allocation of scarce resources. particularly in a capitalist context in which market competition is the primary engine and regardless of whether or not one believes it is the best engine for the population from a moralistic perspective, it is undeniably one that has casualties at all times. thus, this creates the ability for one to always point to some indicator that informs the negative side of what is happening. thus, for any observer, it is incumbent upon them to evaluate the suite of data indicators an place value on what they believe is most important.
have formulas been created with the types of various variable weighting that you are describing? of course...by a lot of experienced and brilliant economists throughout history. are any of them impenetrable to criticism and revision? of course not. how you weight things is going to be informed by your subjective perspective on what data and which indicators are most important. gini coefficient, m2 money supply, money velocity, housing starts, wage growth, % of poverty, crime statistics, ppi, cpi, interest rates, gnp per capita, debt to gdp, deficit to gdp, srad, lrad, sras, p to e ratios in equities, currency strength, corporate after-tax profits, trade balance, inventories, lpr, whether or not the horns beat ou...
all have value if recorded properly and utilized properly. and they are all inter-related but there are so many other exogenous variables that may get them out of whack (war, climate)...that trying to account for them all in a static formula is potentially dangerous based on the designer.
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1 hour ago, EuroHorn said:

lowest common denominator.
i truly am amused by the "conservatives" peacocking around about the surge from pouring gasoline (in the form of stimulus we are going to need in the near future) on an economy with overheated short run aggregate demand via the greatest deficit spending figures that have ever been seen in the history of the united states.
kind of mind-blowing. but predictable i suppose.
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24 minutes ago, Zavala said:
How many bailouts did Trump give to the banks and big companies so far?
a whooooooole bunch of them.
see "tax cuts and job act of 2017."
not to mention the direct subsidies/bailout payments to agriculture for losses in chinese trade.
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great player, great longhorn, great texan. love d.j. i remember we played tech at home early in the season in 2001 (his freshman year). we absolutely buttfucked them in that game and i remember freshman d.j. ranging the whole field killing people...dominated all the way to the michigan game in 2004. only regret for d.j. is never beating ou.
also, remember him playing for waco high in 2000 against my h.s. alma mater in the playoffs...fucking dude completely wrecked with 30 solo tackles in that game. was elated to get him after seeing that to say the least.
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On 4/30/2019 at 7:18 PM, youdunnf'dup said:
This is the game that always sticks out to me when I remember his college career. Our offense was struggling all day, a lot of people weren’t completely sold on Colt (childs should starts), and he just put the team on his fucking back. That 4th quarter was all time special
saved our asses in that one. as well as the okie state game same year. the rice game following up on the ohio state game in 2005 was when i knew it was a done deal. the big run against ou in 2005. 7.8 yards per play from scrimmage as a fish. fucking loved that dude. 2008 offense with him in it...we can only dream.
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absolute ass beating.
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i'm fucking old or something. don't recognize a single thing below the purple stripe.
gnr i guess for a box-checking exercise. gc jr should be awesome. if mumford plays their five good songs, that's okay.
not one other thing on there that has me remotely excited. which sucks, because the wife is determined to go this year.
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bruce hornsby still out there trying to get it done, eh? guess that's just the way it is.
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i am fully aware that this will be heresy on this thread (given the purity of it) but i snagged one of these last week for purposes of using during recording to midi in my daw with guitar. acts as both an audio interface but also digital pedal board with a seemingly infinite number of pedals that can all be tweaked and customized and chained in amplitube on ipad. it also works in a live mode with a looper/tuner/etc. straight into amps.
is it the same as the real thing? no. but i will say i have been pretty impressed with some of the sounds it has generated and the expression pedal can be assigned to any aspect of any of the digital pedals. don't know if anyone has used it at all but for someone like me who is not a live gigger with my guitar, just use it as an accoutrement to music composition that is all ultimately digital anyway, and want every pedal for only a couple hundred bucks...not a bad plan.
https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irigstompio/

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12 hours ago, Wiler77 said:
That's disappointing to hear. I haven't been there in 3-4 years, but every time I ordered the tasting I felt like they forgot it was supposed to be a tasting portion. Every course was like 1/2 of a reasonable sized dish. Always left stuffed.
it was disappointing...last two times i have been there (this past weekend and back in december), they have completely stiffed on the food and the wine pairing has been like a bad joke someone is playing. the five course had two shaved thin pieces of hamachi, two scallops that couldn't have been bigger than u20's, a slice and a half of duck breast served over a couple of lentils (all three previous dishes tasted good, but there was a bite), and then two tiny 1/4 inch slices of shitty flank steak served on a bed of inedible sprouts. then a joke of a cake thing that was the size of a nickel. all for $130.
used to be a spot i really enjoyed a lot but they are just screwing people over at this point.
agreed on olamaie...super overrated. jeffereys, uchi, odd duck have all been excellent every time i go. went to loro opening day and haven't felt compelled to go back.
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something that would have been kind of cool looking if nothing else (and i was kind of waiting for it to happen)...when the dothraki did their cavalry charge into the dark unknown (smart!) and we had the kind of cool cinematography of all the flaming swords being extinguished...would have been cool if they would have just held the shot like they did, and then all of sudden, a bunch of blue-flamed swords went up and started charging winterfell.
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the 2008/2009 collapse of the financial sector as a "tailwind."
lulz.
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i am fucking done with wink. went there saturday night and did their lame ass 5 course and left starving. they are taking shit to an extreme. the wine pairings were brutally bad...just awful.
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the 7/11 truthers were pointing out there weren't any jews in the store.
splett is going to have a meteoric rise and win the presidency.
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highly similar domestic and economic policy directions...similar levels of embracing deficit spending...
annual gdp growth rates:
2004 - 3.8%
2005 - 3.5%
2006 - 2.9%
hmm.
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3 hours ago, Iconoclast Texan said:
Another quarter of above 3% GDP growth. Remember what Obama said we’d never see that again. I have never been wealthier in my life than now. I thank President Trump for the economy and lower taxes. Give me a ballot right now. Trump 2020 MAGA
link to this quote from obama?
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United may want to keep their bouquets. Lulz.
It is so fucking classic Everton...combined score of 8-0 against Chelsea, arsenal, and united over last four, and 0-2 against fucking Fulham. Christ.
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3 minutes ago, horncyclist said:11 minutes ago, David Dennison said:Starts on p. 110.
Were the details of what they offered on Hillary and Juniors statement that they could revisit the sanctions if they won, news? I hadn't seen those details reported. Seems significant. There was plenty evidence that the Campaign welcomed the help and would provide softening of sanctions in exchange. This is without knowing the details of some of the significant follow up conversations.
mueller says the russians attempted to follow up on discussing the act but that the transition team did not entertain the meeting and it never happened.






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thx for feedback, jj. while the first two aren't mine, they were completely from scratch on the recreation from ear and i find it incredibly helpful for trying to learn to properly mix and master since one has such a direct reference track. i worked on the first one quite a bit longer than any of the others.